It’s been hovering around the 0.5% to 1.5% mark for years, but it’s finally gone now.

For the past 12 months, this is how the energy mix of the UK has looked:

• Wind, 32.1%

• Gas, 26.6%

• Nuclear, 14.8%

• Biomass, 7.0%

• Solar, 5.1%

• Hydroelectric, 1.4%

• Coal, 1.1%

The remainder gets imported, mostly from France and Norway, so is likely primarily Nuclear and Hydroelectric.

Stopped watching netflix because they banned sharing accounts and £18 (24 USD) monthly was too much for just one person. Cheaper plans didn’t have 4K or 5.1 audio, so it felt like a waste when I couldn’t even use my setup as it is meant to be used.

Never watched prime because I refuse to pay for something then still see ads.

Now I either source stuff by other means (🏴‍☠️🦜) and put it on my media server, or I use BBC iPlayer. Not sure if that’s a thing outside of the UK, but zero ads and decent quality programming is something I’m happy to pay their fee for, especially when it also goes towards funding ad-free TV, radio, news, sport, podcasts, etc.

It’s fucked how greed has completely ruined the streaming market. Back in ~2010 it felt like the market was going in such a positive direction.

Eh, not everyone is fit to be a moderator.

I don’t feel I have the time (this issue is made worse by my timezone not aligning up with the most active hours for communities), nor do I have the maturity and level-headedness to be a fair and impartial moderator.

E: oops replying 3 days later. I’m surprised this thread is still in my feed…

Nintendo does still make good games, and they’re the only ones who seem to care about multiple people playing together while sitting on the couch, as opposed to focussing only on online multiplayer across multiple systems.

Which is why it’s so annoying that they do evil shit on the side like this. Nintendo are litigious to an absolutely callous degree. Wankers.

No, if you have any amount of money. Large or small.

Havingess money, if anything, presses you to kill projects more.

iPhone Pro Max screen area: 115.6cm²

iPad Air 11" screen area: 357.6cm²

iPad Air 13" screen area: 519.3cm²

An iPad has between 3 and 4.5 times the screen space than the largest iPhone.

The depiction aligning with reality is not a bias. Artificially altering the algorithm so that it shows more women for this prompt on the other hand is, unquestionably, adding a bias.

If you want to add a bias, fine. Biases aren’t always a bad thing, I can certainly see the argument for why you might want a 50/50 gender split for all AI prompts. But don’t pretend that what you’re actually advocating for here is correcting a bias, because it isn’t.

Likewise you can train it out of a bias, just feed it more content showing diverse workforces

That is training in a bias. Because it’s not representative of reality.

So people are complaining that the depictions of cardiologists, when you ask an image generator to show you one, are too accurate? That 85% of the time they show you a man in a job where 85% of people are men?

You’d likely see the same thing if you asked one to show you a warehouse worker, another job that’s male-dominated.

If people want more women in these roles, push for it at the university level. Push for it in medical posters in hospitals. I don’t see how forcing the hundreds of AI models out there to be biased in favour of depicting women when their training material doesn’t have as many is an effective way of achieving this goal.

This just seems like a “we want to complain about this field being male dominated, and we’re sure to get headlines if we include the AI buzzword”

Ok. But that is just you personally, and the internet carers to far more than just you.

The media I consume is mostly youtube

Which is ad-based, even if you and I likely use ublock.

I won’t miss anything that ran on ads

You won’t miss any YouTube content? Really? There’s not a single YouTube channel you like? You won’t miss hundreds of news websites? Game mod websites? Sites with Old game archives? Etc etc.

Ok whatever, let’s assume that’s right. It still doesn’t change anything. You feeling that way doesn’t mean ads will no longer exist.

Ads will exist regardless of your feelings on the matter, because so much of the internet is reliant on it. With that in mind, surely you’d rather ads not be the privacy nightmare they are right now, no?

I feel like people are shitting on a real improvement to the way things currently are in order to fawn over a completely unrealistic change. In other words, letting perfect be the enemy of good.

Committing resources to projects then keeping them/killing them depending on how they go really isn’t abnormal or a poor business practice, no matter how much you try to make it sound like one.

That’s how it works, yes.

You spend money creating something, hoping the market will pick it up.

Yeah. Offline translation (i.e. that doesn’t send data to Google to translate), better screen reader functionality for blind people? Sign me the fuck up.

People are just seeing “AI” and getting upset about it. Absolutely stupid.

Their ad metrics thing is 100% private. Nobody, not even Mozilla, can tie the data back to you. Each data point is packaged separately (so that you can’t get all of it and easily work out who it is). Mozilla created an effective way to have genuinely privacy-respecting and metrics and they’re hated for it.

I don’t like ads, I use an adblock, but the internet runs on ads. Ads unfortunately have to exist if we still want all this online content, and if they do exist, they should be private.

With any hope, the likes of the EU will push for this over the kinds of ad systems that Google and Meta push.

As for the AI integration in Firefox - it runs locally and does stuff like offline translation (i.e not sending the contents of the page to Google translate), as well as enhanced screen reader functionality for blind people. Stop trying to equate it to the likes of ChatGPT.

Honestly a number of these were abandoned for reasons that are fair enough.

Additionally, lots of these are open source and either have been or can be forked.

it is notable that three universities in North America and Europe turned down the offer of a gift of a cast of this bust of Liu before it was accepted by the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the University of Galway.

One university cited “security concerns” in relation to protecting the artwork. Another claimed that it did not accept busts of “political figures”, when there were already several such busts on its campus. A third said it didn’t have “space” for the bust.

It would be nice if we were actually told which three universities these were. Literally all we’re told is that there’s three of them in total that were offered but declined.

The new tranche will include an additional Patriot air defense battery, unmanned aerial systems, and air-to-ground munitions, as well as funds to strengthen Ukraine’s defense industrial base and support its maintenance and sustainment requirements.

Washington will also provide Kyiv with the Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) munition “to enhance Ukraine’s long-range strike capabilities,” Biden said.

The U.S. president also announced the expansion of training for Ukrainian F-16 pilots by supporting the training of an additional 18 next year.

Well yeah, I’d hope the people who do this use glass bottles, but let’s be real, they’ll use whatever easily-sealable bottle is most convenient. So plastic bottles.

If I had to pick, Ubuntu.

What I’d actually pick: Fedora

Workstation Edition (Gnome) or Plasma Edition (KDE Plasma), whatever your UX preference, with Gnome being more polished, minimalist, distraction-free, and Plasma being like Windows out of the box but much more powerful and customisable.

The name unfortunately conjures images of the tips fedora/m’lady meme, but the name predates that, and it’s a solid and well-supported distro that gets better with every update.

I don’t really dislike Ubuntu; they certainly get a lot right. But they have also made a few choices that I’m not really into. Most of all, the direction of Ubuntu is somewhat unpredictable, because Canonical is a for-profit business that has changing priorities.

Less of a threat than dogwalkers. Do you propose we kill people’s pets too?

Besides, farmers get reimbursed for livestock that are killed.

We’ve come a long way. An analogue clock in particular seems crazy to me lol

It’d be interesting to see a timeline of different UIs on Linux, from the beginning to now